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Dame Judi Dench, Sir Andy Murray, Joanna Lumley and 27 other celebrities today call on the Government to use trade freedoms after Brexit to ban all fur imports.

In a letter to the Sunday Telegraph, which is also signed by Twiggy, Sue Perkins and Ricky Gervais, the group questions: "if fur is too cruel to produce in this country, it's too cruel to sell in this country."

The authors urge Theresa May to consider the “animals who have suffered a lifetime in tiny barren cages, often driven insane by neglect”.

“It is from animals who have been brutally electrocuted or gassed, and sometimes even skinned alive. It is from animals caught and left for days in barbaric leg-hold traps. They endure all of...